From Sound to Syntax: The Prosodic Bootstrapping of Clauses

It has long been argued that prosodic cues may facilitate syntax acquisition (e.g., Morgan, 1986). Previous studies have shown that infants are sensitive to violations of typical correlations between clause-final prosodic cues (Hirsh-Pasek et al., 1987) and that prosody facilitates memory for strin...

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Main Author: Hawthorne, Kara Eileen
Other Authors: Gerken, LouAnn
Language:en
Published: The University of Arizona. 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/283672